HOWARD COUNTY, MD — A meeting will be held Thursday for the community to learn more about the upcoming tunnel blasting project as part of the Ellicott City Safe and Sound plan's north tunnel ...

Blasting explosives like gunpowder, nitroglycerin, and dynamite all work well for carving a tunnel through a mountain. The dense rock walls can support themselves, and they won't collapse into the ...

ELLICOTT CITY, MD — Blasting will be done Tuesday between 9 and 11 a.m. in the 8800 block of Frederick Road at the North Tunnel construction site. Traffic will come to a complete stop for ...

Nitroglycerin was first used in 1867 to excavate the Hoosac Tunnel in North Adams, Massachusetts. That same year, Swedish physicist Alfred Nobel patented another blasting explosive called dynamite.

By 1870 the railway had arrived, bringing modernity in its wake. It was a monumental undertaking that included blasting a tunnel 15 kilometers (9 miles) long through the tough granite shoulder of ...

In the 1930s, workers bored a 13-mile tunnel beneath Mt. San Jacinto. Here's a look inside the engineering feat that carries ...

Hyderabad: The technical committee of the Srisailam Left Bank Canal (SLBC) decided to use only the drill and blast method to ...

Lebanon's army said a soldier was killed and three others wounded Monday in an explosion in the country's south, where President Joseph Aoun said they had been dismantling mines in a tunnel. "While a ...